Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 48 connects to 10 cross-references. An extended oracle against Moab describing its total devastation: wailing in every city, the destroyer descending on every town, Moab made a derision and horror. The nation has been complacent since youth, undisturbed on its dregs. Yet the chapter ends …
Other Translations
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.
For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
Cross References
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words …
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their …
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his …
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, …
The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the …
Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto …